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beds to sleep on an‘ de houses wus good warm comfortable Io~ houses. We had plenty of cover an‘ feather pillows.

	~iv~r grandmother on my mother‘s side told me a lot of stories ‘bout haints and how people nm from ‘em. Dey told me ‘bout slaves dat had been killed by dere~‘inarster‘s. coming back and worryin‘ ‘em. 01e Missus Penny Wil1iains~ before Jackson May bought mothe~treated some of de slaves mighty bad. She died an‘ den come back an‘ near~ly scared de slaves to death. kandxnother tolä all we chillun she seed her an‘ knowed her after she been dead an‘ come back.

	“John May a slave wus beat to death by Bill Stone an ‚ Oliver May . Oliver May wus JuniUs Ma‘ ~ son. Juniu.s May wus Jackson May‘s Uncle. John ~May come back an‘ wurried both of ‘em. Dey could hardly sleep arter aat. Dey said dey could hear him hollerin‘ an‘ groanin‘ most all de time. Dese white men would gro~i in dere sleep an‘ tell John to go away. Dey would say, ‘Go w~ John, please go away‘. De other slaves wus afraid of ‘em cause de ghost of John wurried ‘em so bad.

	UI wurked on de farm, cuttin‘ corn stalks and tendin‘ to cattle in slavery time • Sometime s I swept de ~Çrards . I never got any money for my work and we idn‘ t have any patches. ~r brothers caught possums, coons and. sich things an‘ we